What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Digital Design Engineer position at Elevate Digital?
***Candidate must sit onsite in San Jose, CA***
***Candidate must be able to work W2 perm position***
Top Skills
- Must have very strong system Verilog experience and some computer architecture experience
- Wants someone who hasn't worked from spec their whole career as well
- Low-energy experience: clock gating, different ways to minimize circuit energy - come prepared to talk about that in interview
- Writing UPF constraints would be a great additional skill
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and verify features from specification through synthesis
- Implement product features at the RTL-level targeting silicon implementation
- Implement product features at the RTL-level targeting FPGA emulation for verification
- Build unit testbench infrastructure to verify implemented features
- Design of memory systems and digital integration of memory macros, including SRAM, MRAM, and others
- Interface design components with external/vendor-provided IP
- Use industrial-strength digital design tools from RTL simulation through synthesis, which may include Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor/Siemens EDA, and ANSYS as necessary
- Provide comprehensive feature and integration documentation
- Interact with physical design and digital verification team for pre-silicon verification
- Work with physical design team to resolve RTL-level issues leading to DRC violations
- Work with compiler and embedded software teams to develop, document, and implement features that span across the software-hardware boundary, including client’s dataflow ISA
Required qualifications & experience
- 7 years of digital design experience with substantial experience designing for tape-out
- Experience running a digital design flow using industry-strength digital design and EDA tools
- Experience with designing and implementing features in RTL
- Experience integrating digital IP with RTL-level implementations
- Experience with pre-silicon verification
- Experience with continuous integration and testing of digital designs
- Experience with version control and scripting languages (Python preferred)
- Experience with memory compiler toolchains
- Strong attention to detail, good work ethic, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and good communication skills
- Good problem solving skills
Desired qualifications & experience
- Experience designing compilers
- Knowledge of computer architecture
- Knowledge of physical design and ASIC implementation
- Experience with power and energy modeling (using tools like PowerArtist, Joules, etc.)
- Bachelor’s degree in related field required. Master’s or PhD. preferred.
